The build
The brief. West Coast University's nursing program was outgrowing its clinical training space. They needed a simulation center that read as a working hospital floor — realistic enough for high-fidelity manikin scenarios — yet reconfigurable as cohorts and curriculum changed, without a capital project every few years.
Our role. We led the project from programming through construction documents. Each simulation pod is operated from a central control room with one-way glass and A/V tie-ins to the adjacent observation classrooms, so a full cohort can watch a live scenario without crowding the bay. To keep the floor flexible, we specified a custom DIRTT modular, medical-grade wall system — rated for the simulators' power, data, and med-gas loads, and demountable so the campus can relocate or add pods as the program evolves.
The outcome. A teaching environment that behaves like a real care setting — and a floor plate the university can re-plan in days rather than months, with no demolition and no downtime between terms. Because the DIRTT walls are demountable, they also become a reusable capital asset: they move to the next build instead of a dumpster.